[plug] MySQL for PostgreSQL users

[Bernd Felsche]

Peter Wright <pete at flooble.net> wrote:
>On 17/09 11:19:38, Tim Bowden wrote:
>> I've got to use MySQL instead of my preferred PostgreSQL (wordpress
>> dependency.

>Funny - I was about to say that Wordpress runs on PostgreSQL (I
>genuinely thought that was the case), but it turns out I'm completely
>and utterly wrong:

>http://wordpress.org/support/topic/549/page/2

>I can understand why the Wordpress developers would put it into the
>too-hard-and-we-don't-care-enough basket, but yeah, it's annoying.

>> Why oh why can't open source projects be database agnostic.  We have
>> an SQL standard for a reason),

>*An* SQL standard? :-)

PEAR/MDB2 ?

>And every major database vendor implemented their own extensions/
>violations of the SQL standard for a reason, and then once they'd done
>that they couldn't easily break backwards compatibility with previous
>versions of their own software merely to provide greater compatibility
>with a standard that not terribly many people care about. :-/

>Yes, it sucks.

OTOH: No progress without change.
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